Nick Preps Prime-Time TV Movie for Go, Diego, Go!

NEW YORK, August 1: Diego’s
Moonlight Rescue, an hour-long
prime-time TV movie based on the hit preschool series Go, Diego, Go!, will be simulcast on Nickelodeon and its sister
network Noggin on August 18 at 8 p.m.

Beginning August 11, Nick
Jr.’s broadband video service, Nick Jr. Video, will be streaming a two-minute
sneak peek and song clips from Diego’s Moonlight Rescue, as well as additional themed episodes from Go,
Diego, Go! The sneak peek and
additional clips will also be available on wireless carriers starting the same
day. On August 18, the new TV movie will be featured in its entirety, along
with shorts, song clips and additional Go, Diego, Go! episodes, on demand on Time Warner Cable, Comcast,
Charter, Cablevision, Verizon FiOS and Cox. Additionally, seasons one and two,
as well as select episodes from season three of the hit preschool program, will
be available for purchase on iTunes.

Diego’s Moonlight
Rescue features the eponymous
young traveler sharing a fantastical tale about his adventures with helping
hatching baby seas turtles find their way into the ocean. While assisting the
turtles, a comet accidentally bumps the moon and pieces fall into the sea, and
Diego and his pal Tuga must navigate through the waters to recover the pieces
before the baby sea turtle eggs hatch.

"Nick Jr. viewers
have helped Diego rescue all kinds of animals from red-eyed tree frogs to pygmy
marmosets and spectacled bears," said Brown Johnson, the president of
animation for Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group. "This next adventure
takes our action hero with a heart to a new level as he sets out to save Luna,
the moon. Preschoolers will have an amazing time exploring underwater cities
and outsmarting orca whales, while learning about the ocean and its
inhabitants."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski